Laboratory environments can be hazardous places to work, as lab personnel are exposed to numerous potential hazards including chemical, biological, physical, and radioactive hazards. The academic research community can benefit from an environmental, health, and safety (EH&S) professional, who has subject matter expertize, has the scientific background to understand laboratory processes, knows technical language and the vocabulary of regulatory nomenclature, and has hazard assessment skills. The theme of this presentation will be how a laboratory scientist can emerge as an EH&S professional and how research lab experience can be a given advantage in EH&S. At the same time, I will also highlight some of the professional challenges it bring to a scientist turned EH&S professional when dealing with the research community and traditional EH&S system.

Scientist in EH&S: Changing the tradition in laboratory safety

2019 Spring National Meeting

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